Sentence examples for based on the exploits from inspiring English sources

Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher is apparently based on the exploits of Ker's grandfather.

Later this month, Branagh's film based on the exploits of the Marvel comic book superhero Thor will make its way into cinemas.

The film, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, and based on the exploits of the bank-robbing Barrow Gang in the 1930s, became a cause celebre.

His first film, "Sanshiro Sugata," was drawn from a popular novel based on the exploits of a 19th-century martial arts champion.

He wrote his last screenplay in 1976, a mountain-climbing piece for Redford called "Solo Faces," based on the exploits of the maverick American climber Gary Hemming.

The Wild Angels (1966) was a sordid biker film that was based on the exploits of the Hell's Angels and starred Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, and Nancy Sinatra.

(Scott) ★ 'The Snowtown Murders' (No rating, 2 00) At times tough to watch, this Australian true-crime drama from Justin Kurzel, based on the 1990s exploits of the serial killer John Bunting, presents a nightmarish vision of suburban rot and teenage vulnerability.

"The Tempest" was a departure from his lascivious 1995 chamber opera, "Powder Her Face," loosely based on the sexual exploits of the Duchess of Argyll, which became tabloid fodder during her divorce proceedings in 1963.

The same year saw the start of perhaps Barr's most significant creation, the series Spycatcher, based on the wartime exploits of MI5's chief interrogator, Lt Col Oreste Pinto, played by Bernard Archard.

Set in working-class Adelaide and based on the 1990s exploits of the notorious serial killer John Bunting and his crew, this nightmarish debut from Justin Kurzel arrives steeped in nastiness.

Based on a book by Armitage Trail, bankrolled by Howard Hughes and directed by Howard Hawks from a screenplay by a fast-typing former newspaperman, Ben Hecht, "Scarface" was largely based on the bloody exploits of the Chicago mobster Al Capone, with an incest theme borrowed from the Italian Renaissance family the Borgias.